Welcome to our Tudor Tuesdays SAL. This is a place to celebrate all things Tudor! Feel free to post your Tudor stitching and any fascinating Tudor facts (and fiction!) on any given Tuesday in the month. You can join at anytime throughout the year and choose which months you wish to stitch and post Tudor-related facts. There will be the occasional giveaway, maybe some quizzes and competitions and definitely lots of FUN!

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Thursday, 5 January 2017

Greetings! If you read my post today over on Wisdom with Needle and Thread, we are starting a SAL in honor of the six wives of Henry VIII. Every other month, a new pattern will be made available on this blog featuring the badge and motto of each of Henry's queens.

First is Catherine of Aragon - her badge is the pomegranate. Catherine took the pomegranate as her badge for several reasons - it was an exotic fruit and represented her Spanish heritage. It also symbolized fertility and abundance. The crown above the fruit is the ultimate power symbol - sovereignty.

To retrieve the cross stitch pattern (first of six), click here. To retrieve Catherine's name and motto click here.

Pattern notes:
- Catherine of Aragon's badge cross stitch pattern is 88W x 117H (stitches)
**the other badges may vary a bit by stitch count due to the design of the badges themselves. Trying to keep within the same parameters caused some badges to be a bit distorted**
- You have the choice of stitching the badge by itself, with or without the motto and/or with or without the name of each queen.
- If you stitch the mottos and names, additional stitches need to be added when you calculate the size of the material you choose to use.

Again - new patterns will be released every other month - so look for Anne Boleyn's in early March.